Smile with the rising sun

So. For our holiday this year we managed to muster a trip to France to visit Paters brother and  family in the beautiful Charente countryside. We took frandemar with us, ( or did she take us?). It had to be short, but quality was our watch word and we had a great time. We stayed down the lane from them in their friends house, which was equal parts delight and sheer terror in case we managed to muck things up there. However the joy of eating together, trips to the river and other excursions made the whole thing too much fun to quantify. You must be so sad you couldn't be there.